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ADDRESS OF DR. A. P. DOSTIE, 

DELIVERED BEFORE THE 

REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS, 
May 9, 1866. 



Fellow-Citizens— The conflict between Free- 
dom and Despotism now agitating the Nation 
is rapidly developing those great principles 
which form the basis of republican govern- 
ment. In the antagonism raging there are two 
parties in the peld — the Republican party, 
which maintains that liberty, equality and 
justice are the prerogatives of all men, and 
should be the foundation of government ; the 
other, the " Democratic " party, whieh dis- 
graces that name by denouncing human equal- 
ity and the imprescriptable rights of man, 
which embrace immortal liberty and impartial 
justice, and thus striving to re-establish a de- 
testable and odious Slave Oligarchy. 

NO MIDDLE GROUND. 

In this battle of ideas no middle ground can 
be taken by friends of freedom, oi democracy, 
of republicanism. The events of the past four 
5 ears have clearly developed to the American 
people the fact that the elements in our country 
at war with republican institutions, with the 
fundamental truths which point to universal 
liberty, can no longer with impunity be per- 
mitted to endanger the life of the Nation. 

Patriots and heroes have written, with pens 
dipped in the blood of thousands, upon the 
corner stone of the Republic : Liberty — Pro- 
gress—Democracy. 

REPUBLICANISM CANNOT BE OVERTHROWN. 

No human power can thrust this Republic of 
Liberty into the depths from which it has been 
lifted. The plague spot has been removed from 
the Nation, and that man, be he " President, 
rebel, or conservative," who dares to conspire 
against the progreps of freedom and equal and 
exact justice, must eventually incur the just 
indignation of an outraged people, and be 
crushed by those " eternal forces " which have 
decreed that this shall be a land of free, re- 
publican institutions. 



LINCOLN AND JOHNSON COMPARED. 

Connected with the events of the past five 
years are two names that will ever stand out 
boldly upon the records of the Second Ameri- 
can Revolution. These are, Abraham Lincoln 
and Andrew Johnson. The one, the great 
leader of the Republican party, the leader of 
that party which, during the past four years, 
won so many " victories for humanity." Abra- 
ham Lincoln was the champion of liberty, the 
embodiment of the principles and policy of the 
Republican party. He was ever the friend of 
patriots, of men loyal to our country, and 
steadily maintained the principles which hon- 
ored republicanism and protected loyalty. 
With mercy he blended justice. Abraham 
Lincoln was never known to compromise with 
traitors. None dared approach the man who, 
by every act of his life, had proved himself 
invulnerable to the flattery of the enemies 
of his country, and who never granted fa- 
vors which would injure the cause of re- 
publican liberty. The friends of emancipa- 
tion, of the Union — men of republican ideas, of 
true democratic principles — were the men with 
whom he sympathised and whom he selected to 
fill places of trust in this Government. Abra- 
ham Lincoln never dreamed of a policy that 
could place traitors in power to crush loyal 
men who had suffered for the cause of liberty 
and the Union. This name, which was made 
immortal because it stood at the head of that 
party, whose policy has ever been to extir- 
pate slavery from the land and restore the 
country according to the laws of right and 
justice, will ever appear in bright contrast with 
that of Andrew Johnson. 

A mourning Nation turned from the grave 
of a martyred President to repose confidence in 
one they believed to be a true patriot, in one 
whose past acts and noble sayings had marked 



AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 






bim as a friend to loyalty, aa enemy to trea- 
son. The oppressed looked up to Andrew 
Johnson with confidence, as he told them " he 
would be their Moses, and take them through the 
dark waters ivhich surrounded them.'' Loyal men 
who had suffered by fighting for their country 
in her peril, for which they were persecuted by 
traitors, trusted the " Moses " of the wronged, 
and confidently believed that bis policy would 
be to protect the friends of the Government 
against the tyranny of those who had sought 
to destroy it. Had Andrew Johnson not said, 
when Governor of Tennessee, " Rebellion shall 
no more pollute our Slate. Loyal men, whether 
black or tvhite, shall govern the State '"' ? Had 
Andrew Johnson not said from his exalted 
position of President, " Treason must be made 
odious, and traitors must be punished and impov- 
erished. Their great plantations must be snzed and 
divided into sinall farms and sold to honest and in- 
dustrious vim "? 

Did not Andrew Johnson say : "In- 
deed, one who has become distinguished in 
treason and in this rebellion, said that ' When 
traitors become numerous enough treason becomes 
respectable,'' and to become a traitor was to con- 
stitute a portion of the aristocracy of the 
country. God protect the people against such an 
aristocracy.''^ "^e, the people, do say, "Yes, the 
time has come when the people should be 
taught to understand the length and breadth, 
the depth and height of treason." An indi- 
Tidual occupying the highest position among 
us was lifted to that position by the free offer- 
ing of the American people— the highest posi- 
tion on the habitable globe. This man we 
Lave seen, revered and loved ; one who, if he 
erred at all, erred on the side of clemeucy and 
mercy. That man we have seen treasoa strike 
through a fitting instrument, and we have be- 
held him fall like a bright star falling from its 
sphere. Now, there is none but would say, if 
the question came up, what should be done 
with the individual who assassinated the Chief 
Magistrate of the Nation ? He is but a man- 
one man, after all ; but if asked what should 
be done with the assassin, what should be the 
penalty, the forfeit exacted ? I know what response 
dwells in every bosom. It is that he should pay 
the forfeit with his life. And hence, we see 
these are times when mercy and clemency 
without justice, become a crime. The one 
should temper the other, and bring about that 



proper means. And if we should eny this when 
the case was the simple murder of one man by 
his fellow-man, what should we say when asked 
what should be done with him, or them, or 
those who have raised impious hands to take 
away the life of a Nation composed of thirty 
millions of people? What would be the reply 
to that question? But while in mercy we re- 
member justice, in the language that has been 
uttered, I say justice toward the leaders, the 
conscious leaders, but I also say amnesty, con- 
ciliation, clemency and mercy to the thousands 
of our countrymen whom you and I know have 
been deceived or drawn into this infernal re- 
bellion. I repeat that it is time our peo- 
ple were taught to know that treason is a 
crime, not a mere political difference, not a 
mere contest between two parties, in which 
one succeeded and the other has simply failed. 
They must know it is treason, for If they had 
succeeded the life of the Nation would have 
been reft from it — the Union would have been 
destroyed. Surely the Constitution sufficiently 
defines treason. It consists in levying war 
against the United States, and in giving their 
enemies aid and comfort. With this definition 
it requires the exercise of no great acumen to 
ascertain who are traitors. It requires no 
great perception to tell who have levied war 
against the United States ; nor does it require 
any great stretch of reasoning to ascertain who 
have given aid to the enemies of the United 
States ; and when the Government of the 
United States does ascertain who are the con- 
scious and intelligent traitors, the penalty and 
forfeit should be paid. I know how to appre- 
ciate the condition of being driven from one's 
home. I can sympathize with him whose all 
has been taken from him; with him who has 
been denied the place that gave bis children 
birth. But let us, withal, in the restoration of 
true government, proceed temperately and dis- 
passionately, and hope and pray that the time 
will come, as I believe, when all can return 
and remain at our homes, and treason and trai- 
tors be driven from our land." 

Traitors were appointed to fill places ol 
trust, but none were willing to believe that 
the patriotic Andrew Johnson had adopted 
a policy that would place men in power 
who had labored for years to destroy the 
most beneficent form of government. Were 



♦ 



AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 



k not his past acts and words in direct antago- 
2 nism to this suicidal policy? Had not he said 
S that " in the work of restoration, that work should 
^^^ he put into the hands of friends, not smothered by 
its enemies" ? That ^^ if there were, but five thou- 
sand men loyal to freedom, loyal to justice, these true 
and faithful men should control the work of reorgan- 
ization and reformation absolutely ^^? Such was 
the confidence reposed in Andrew Johnson by 
the loyal Union men of the South that they 
suffered in silence the persecutions of traitors, 
believing that when their patriotic President 
had experimented sufficiently in his restoration 
policy, he certainly would discover that such a 
policy sustained traitors and crushed loyal 
men. They waited hopefully and patiently, 
believing that when their loyal President 
should discern the true character of his 
appointees, they would receive their just 
reward — that traitors would be punished ac- 
cording to his solemn promises. 

JOri.VSON DISSIPATES THE HOPES OF THE LOYAL. 

Alas! that Andrew Johusou should have 
stultified his history, abandoued his party, and 
fallen from that position where a confiding, 
liberty-loving people had placed him, expect- 
ing hiin to carry out the great principles the 
lamented Lincoln had pointed out as necessary 
to save the Republic. Alas ! that the Chief 
Executive should descend from that exalted 
position so recently occupied by the Great 
Martyr of Liberty, to denounce the principles 
of that pirty, of that Congress who are strug- 
gliug to maintain the immortal cause for which 
the leader of Republicanism — the noble Lin- 
coln—had died. 

UIS ASSOCIATION WITH TRAITORS. 

Liberty bowed her head and wept, methinks, 
on the night of February 22d, 1S66, when the 
Chief Magistrate of the Nation mingled with 
the traitors of the land to insult a Republican 
Congress, to strike at the vitals of Liberty, to 
treat with contempt the memory of Washington 
and Lincoln. It was not strange that the 
Nation stood aghast and loyal hearts wer3 
filled with shame and humiliation, while trai- 
tors shouted and fired guns in honor of their 
avowed leader. 

HE ASSERTS THAT HE IS CARRYIXG OUT MR. LIN- 
COLN'S POLICY. 

President Johnson declares that he is but 
carrying out the policy of Abraham Lincoln. 



If he had reconstructed and restored States ac- 
cording to his promises, he would have carried 
out Mr. Lincoln's policy. Has this been his 
course? Has he adhered to the principles for 
which he was elected to restore the States? 
Has not Andrew Johnson said " The leaders of 
the rebellion have decided eternal separation between 
you and them. These leaders must be conquered and 
a new set of men brought forward, who are to vitalize 
and develope the Union feeling in the South"? 
This was the policy of Abraham Lincoln; this 
was the promulgated policy of Andrew John- 
son, as an avowed Republican. This is not his 
present policy. Ilis policy is to arm the 
rebels, to veto Liberty Bills designed to give 
protection to the loyal against traitors, to de- 
nounce patriots as traitors and fraternize with 
the red-handed monsters of the land, 

GOV. BROWNLOW'S OPINION OP JOHNSON'S POLICY, 

Listen to what Gov. Brownlow says of An- 
drew Johnson's policy : *• When I put the Presi- 
dent in nomination at Baltimore for the Vice 
Presidency , I felt that he had so thoroughly commit- 
ted himself to the Union cause, and had been so badly 
treated by the rebels, it was impossible for him ever 
to get around to them again; but I give him uj) as 
lost to the Union party, and as the man who is to 
head the rebels and Democrats. Every rebel in this 
country, every McClellan man, and every ex-guerrilla 
chief are loud and enthusiastic in praise of the Presi- 
dent. The men ivho but a few months since were 
cursing him for an Abolitionist and traitor and wish- 
ing him executed, are now for executing all who dare 
oppose UIS TOLiCY, or even doubt its success.'' lu 
the eleven rebellious States, can any one point 
out the " 7ie!4' set of .men?" No. The le^tders 
of the rebellion, through the influence and 
power of Andrew Johnson, to-day hold the 
offices and places throughout these States, aud 
openly declare that Andrew Johnson, whom 
the loyal millions trusted, is the friend and 
supporter of the leaders of the rebelliou, while 
they know that the loyal Union people are un- 
protected and subject to the tyranny af the 
instigators of the rebellion. Andrew Johnson 
is shamefully guilty of displacing men who 
have lavishly spilt their blood and expended 
their treasure to secure an undivided country, 
and given those places to men distinguished 
for their treason. The policy of Abraham Lin- 
coln was in bright contrast with this policy. 
During Lincoln's life, were men known to 
have been partisans ot secession, appointed 



AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 



to govern the States ? Were its instigators al- 
lowed to hold ofiBces or positions of honor or 
trust? Did traitors dream of asking such 
favors from the just and honest Lincoln ? They 
knew that the great object of that noble life 
was to put down treason and restore the Union. 
In contrast to Johnson's proceedings, Lincoln 
acted according to his convictions of right and 
justice. His acts were in harmony with his 
words. Andrew Johnson declared that influen- 
tial and wealthy traitors ought to suffer " the 
penalties and terrors of the law," and now 
seeks to conciliate them, honors them by pla- 
cing them in Government employ, and giving 
them positions of power, where their influ- 
ence in favor of treason is unlimited. Is this 
" arresting, convicting and punishing " men who 
have been guilty of the greatest of crimes — 
treason ? Is this making treason odious ? 

HE DECLARES LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA 
LOYAL. 

Andrew Johnson has recently declared, in 
praise of his restoration policy, that Louisiana 
aid South Carolina are now more loyal than 
they have been for the past twenty-five years — 
showing that all men do not regard loyalty 
from the same standpoint. The men who 
have been crushed by the despotic tyranny of 
President Johnson's reconstructed rsbels, because 
they have fought for the Union and republican 
principles, place a different construction upon 
loyalty. The men who have fought treason and 
slavery for the last twenty-five years, and who 
have been commissioned by high authority to 
investigate these important matters, do not 
talk thus of the loyalty of Louisiana and South 
Carolina. The true, loyal Union men of these 
eleven rebellious States know that rebellion is 
only conquered by the bayonet, that military 
power alone keeps it in check. Why do the 
masses, led on by prominent men, the wealthy, 
influential aristocrats of the South, denounce 
in the most bitter terms the men who oppose 
slavery, secession and treason? Why is the 
press of these States, if they are so loyal, con- 
stantly filling the public mind with the same 
ideas that were popular during the rebellion? 

HORACE MAYNABU'S OPINION OF THE REBELLIOUS 
STATES. 

Hearken to what Horace Maynard says : 
" With the same traitor editors as before 
and during the war, pardoned it may be, but 



manifestly unchanged in temper and pur- 
pose, there is displayed the same sectional 
feeling end hatred of the Federal Government, 
though not the same stomach for fight. Under 
a thin disguise ot flattery of the President they 
assail his friends who have stood by him all 
through the dark years of the conflict, and vilify 
those whom they call radicals, meaning all 
Union men who oppose their infamous course 
and who are now unwilling they should be re- 
stored to power over loyal men. Their diurnal 
venom afi'ords the strongest argument against 
the admission to their seats of your Congres- 
sional representation. The ideas and princi- 
ples of the rebellion are constantly instilled 
into the popular mind." This is known to be 
true by all loyal men in the South . The un- 
repentant rebels still resist the laws of the 
Nation, despise the sacred oaths they have 
taken, and only took them for the purpose of 
gaining power through the mysterious magna- 
nimity of Andrew Johnson, praise the institu- 
tion of slavery and despotism, and generally 
embrace the sentiments of men like T. Yancey, 
of Mississippi, who says : "As for recognizing the 
right of freedmen to their children, I can say that 
not one Southern man or woman in the whole 
South recognizes the negro as a freedman, but 
as other stolen property forced by the bayonets 
of the damnable United States Government.^' 

THOUGH THE INSURRECTION IS DECLARED ENDED, 
WAR YET EXISTS. 

Such are the " loyal men " in power in these 
reconstructed States. Such are the men now 
guarding the vital interests of eleven States of 
this Republic of Liberty. Does that flag which 
is the pride of the Nation, in the folds of which 
maybe read " Liberty, Justice and Equality," 
wave triumphantly over these States? Al- 
though Andrew Johnson has proclaimed the 
" insurrection at an end," loar has not ended, peace 
has not come. The Union men of the South 
yet look upon Federal bayonets as their only 
hope of salvation, and must so do, until a truly 
Republican Congress can secure peace to the 
country by reconstructing the rebellious States 
upon a loyal basis, until those who are traitors 
are made •' to take a back seat," and are shorn 
of all power to renew their assault upon the 
life of the Nation. Traitors, through the TTuig- 
nanimity of Andrew Johnson, have received 
positions due only to good and patriotic men. 



AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 



Mea Tho had made themselves worthy of 
favors from the Chief Executive by their ad- 
hereuce to the Government when in peril, 
demanded, in the name of right and justice, 
that the sacred interests of this Government 
be guarded by its sworn and tried friends, and 
not placed in the power of the leaders of the 
rebellion, who still plot the destruction of the 
Republic. Honors bestowed upon traitors will 
prove that 

"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill." 

Have these pardoned rebels, who to-day, 
through the influence of the President, govern 
the eleven rebellious States, shown any evi- 
dence of repentance for the crimes they have 
committed against their country ? Do they 
regard their sacred oaths? Do they not daily 
declare, while surrounded by Federal bayonets, 
that they will yet conquer that power which 
has compelled their submission to the just laws 
of this Nation, while they acknowledge them- 
selves beaten in the field ? that, with the help 
of their President and the copperheads of the 
North, they will triumph politically in the 
Government of this country ; that it will be a 
more decided victory of their principles than 
they could have obtained by defeating the 
Republican army upon the battle-field ? Is this 
yielding up the infamous principles for which 
they commenced and fought a bloody war, that 
they might become a Confederacy of Traitors, 
the corner stone of which was to be slavery? 
Is this embracing the great truths which give 
to this Nation " Liberty — full, broad and un- 
conditional Liberty?" Ought not traitors to 
be made to feel that by committing the crime 
of treason against this Government they forfeit 
their rights as citizens, and that justice de- 
mands that they be arrested and punished ? If 
they had repented of their infamous crimes, 
would they not honor and respect their con- 
querors? Have they done this? No. The 
fact is notorious that all the influential, 
wealthy leaders of rebellion to-day bid defi- 
ance to the Government and laws of the coun 
try they have deluged with blood and filled with 
woe and desolation. The principles of these 
leaders have always moved them to oppose 
republicanism, human equality and liberty, 
aiid to guide the masses under their control to 
anarchy and rebellion. 

These are the men who to-day, under the 
policy and administration of Andrew Johnson, 



occupy the first positions in the States so lately 
in armed hostility to the United States Gov- 
ernment. These men, who led the armies of 
the rebellion against the Republican hosts, 
who fought to maintain the Government and 
establish liberty throughout the land, now lead 
the armies forth to fight the political battles 
against their conquerors. 

JOHNSON CLAIMED BY KEBKI.S AND COPPERHEADS 
AS THEIR LEADER AND FRIEND. 

And whom do they claim as their leader in 
this conflict between republicanism and des- 
potism, between free institutions and slavery? 
Who, say the copperhead presses of the North 
and the rebel presses of the South, shall be 
their leader? In answer to this question, let 
us read from the Bangor (Maine) Democrat, 
which says : "Andrew is himself again. The 
smoke and dust of the late civil war have 
cleared away. The errors and vagaries of the 
last five years have cleared away, have passed 
into oblivion, and Andrew Johnson has shaken 
from his limbs the shackles of Black Republi- 
canism, and stands before the country to-day 
the same noble, true-hearted Democrat he was 
in those better days when he sat at the feet of 
the great Hero of the Hermitage, and received 
from his lips the first lessons in Jeffersonian 
Democracy. The President has vetoed the 
infamous Freedmen's Bureau Bill, a bill of 
abominations." From the Wilmington (North 
Carolina) Herald we also quote : "All honor to 
President Johnson. The telegraph of this 
morning brings us the gratifying tidings that 
the President has vetoed the bill commonly 
known as the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. Does 
the South want any further evidence of the 
friendship of the Federal Administration to- 
wards it? Is it not time for the Southern peo- 
ple to take some action toward staying up the 
hands of the noble, worthy, patriotic Chief 
Executive? He cannot stand alone against 
radicalism and fanaticism. Let the people of 
Wilmington send him a word of cheer, sympa- 
thy and encouragement." Such are the senti- 
ments expressed by the copperheads of the 
North and the traitors of the South. They 
evidently believe that their leader is secured 
to them, that the man who so long suffered on 
the "gridiron" because men of republican 
principles were suffering by the persecutions of 
traitors, copperheads and rebels, the " Moses " 



AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 



of the oppressed, the Governor of Tennessee, 
who declared that loyal men, whether black or 
white, should rule the State, who said that 
treason must be made odious, that the wealthy, 
influential leaders of the rebellion must lae 
arrested, convicted and punished, is now the 
accepted leader of those who love oppression 
and hate free, democratic, republican institu- 
tions. The leader of red-handed traitors, who 
have fought to undermine the foundations of 
this Government, the leader of men whose 
names stand in the same category of crime 
with Aaron Burr, of whom Andrew Johnson 
said, in the days when he denounced traitors : 
" Were I President of the United Stales, I would 
do as Thomas Jefferson did, in ISOG, with 
Aaron Burr — I would have them arrested, and 
if convicted, within the meaning and scope of 
the Constitution, by the Eternal God, I ivould 
execute them." Andrew Johnson is President of 
the United States, and who has he arrested? 
Who has been executed? — Wirz. The men who 
founded and instigated conspiracies to over- 
throw the Government, men who fired upon 
our flag, took our forts and customhouses, our 
arsenals, our mints, our lands, and fought 
against our liberty, made desolate our homes 
and murdered our sons and brothers — these are 
the men who cry, from every portion of the 
land, upon Andrew Johnson to lead them 
against that party who has ever stood up 
boldly for the eternal principles of justice and 
the rights of humanity, who crushed the in- 
famous rebellion and stayed the revengeful 
arm of those who struck at the vitals of the 
Nation, that party which wielded a power that 
all the copperheads, rebels and demons in 
Christendom cannot crush, be their leader An- 
drew Johuson, Robert E. Lee or Jefferson 
Davis. 

TUE KEKUBLIC SAFE. 

Notwithstanding the defection of the Presi- 
dent, this great Republic is not to be hurled 
from the majestic heights lo which it has been 
lifted within the past five years ; it is not 
again to be thrown back into the depths of 
slavery, oppression and degradation from which 
it has just emerged. The spirit of the age pro- 
claims the march of Freedom to be onward, 
and no human power can silence the voice 
of Liberty, as she proclaims to the nations 
of the earth her right to rule this Repub- 
lic. Men may plot and conspire to destroy 



liberty and republicanism, and build upoa 
their ruins slavery and despotism, but there is 
a God of Justice who rules the destinies of this 
Nation, and who. in the events of the last fou" 
years, has proved to the American people that 
from His Eternal Throne He has decreed that 
this shall be a Republic where the rights of 
humanity shall be sacred against oppression 
and tyranny. Human rights have become 
wonderfully developed by the revolution which 
has been sweeping over the land. Millions of 
the enslaved have been, by the Great Emanci- 
pator, proclaimed freemen, and are becoming 
enlightened on the important events of the age, 
and appreciate the humane principles of re- 
publicanism, to which they owe their liberation 
from the thraldom of tyranny, notwithstanding 
President Johnson's recent order to discontinue 
" the collection of taxes by the Freedmeu's 
Jj\\XG3.n for purposes of education.'^^ 

Johnson's views on reconstruction. 
We hear a great cry raised about taxation 
without representation. Andrew Johuson, in 
his anxiety to admit the leaders of the rebel- 
lion into Congress, exclaims that it is unjust to 
compel States to pay taxes without representa- 
tion, and declares that it is unjust to bar the 
Congressional doors against the Representa- 
tives now sent from the rebellious States, and 
says: "Admit into the councils of the Nation 
those who are unmistakably loyal." Does not 
President Johnson kuow that nine-tenths of the 
men sent from the rebellious States are noto- 
rious for their treasonable efforts to destroy 
the Government, and that their constituents 
daily curse it as " the damnable United States 
Government;" that these unprincipled rebels 
are now laboring with their wealth and un- 
limited influence to tax four millions of free- 
men, without representation ; that they deny 
them the rights of the ballot, while their loy- 
alty is unquestionable. Andrew Johnson says 
" the Revolution was fought that there should 
be no taxation without representation." For 
what, we would ask, has this Second Revolu- 
tion been fought, if not to establish equal rights 
in this Nation? Should the Republican Con- 
gress be denounced by the Chief Executive 
because it would maintain the principles for 
which this great civil war has been fought, 
because it frowns upon traitors and makes 
those guilty understand that they have for- 
feited the right to participate in the legislation 



AN ADDRESS BY DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 



of the Nation? President Johnson and Con- 
gress do not differ in this matter if President 
Johnson abides by his words. No true Union 
man desires to see a loyal man thrust out of 
Congress, or to see a State unrepresented in 
the National Legislature, when it can be 
proven that that State has a trusty republican 
^[overnment and is established upon a loyal ))asis 
— a State that will send men to represent her in 
Congress whoso hands have not been imbrued 
in the blood of patriots. President Johnson 
declares he stands by the Constitution and 
Government to resist encroachments. Alas! 
that he had not been as anxious to guard them 
from the polluting touch of traitors as he is to 
denounce their noblest friends. President 
Johnson is opposed to any further amendments 
of the Constitution '• at this time." He desires 
that this important work be postponed until 
the restoration of the Southern States, that 
they may have their influence in determining 
what these amendments shall be. What kind 
of amendments are we to expect fiom traitors 
whose souls are steepee in the principles 
of rebellion and slavery, the sworn friends of 
Jefferson Davis. Robert E. Lee and other leaders 
of traitors? This being, according to his 
recent acts, ^' the ivhite man's government," uai- 
versal sulTrage is not in harmony with his ideas 
of American Government. •• It would bring 
on a war of the races." That war commenced 
when slavery was first established, and will 
continue until human equality is acknowledged 
and respected in every State in the Republic of 
Liberty. That is a self-evident truth, plainly 
read by every thoughtful lover of right and 
justice in this country. 

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE— LIXCOLN IN FAYOU OF IT. 

Abraham Lincoln, true to justice and liberty, 
taught the duty and necessity of equal rights. 
His words were: "Universal suffrage before 
universal amnesty." Abraham Lincoln under- 
stood Southern loyalty, and knew that the 
rebellious States could not be reconstructed 
upon a loyal basis until the principal element 
of loyalty in those States had the right of the 
ballot and all other rights of American citi- 
zens, which all men are entitled to. The with- 
holding these rights, the rights which the 
founders of this Government acknowledged, 
has already deluged the laud in blood, and 
points to another civil war unless the ju&t de- 



mands of humanity are complied with. Liberty 
has written upon the flag of the nation, '• Equal 
Rights— the Destiny of Republicanism," and 
this Nation will never have attained to the 
glory destined for her until the rights of all 
men are respected by the Government. How, 
wo would ask, can President Johnson claim to 
be carrying out the policy of the Martyr of 
Liberty, when he is doing everything in his 
power to crush the loyal men in the South, 
both white and black, by appointing the most 
powerful leaders of the rebellion to prominent 
official positions, who still cherish disloyalty in 
their hearts? 

RESTORATION FOLICIKS OF LINX'OLN AND JOHNSON. 

Lincoln was never known to announce a 
great principle and act contrary to it. That 
great and good man said : " An attempt to guar- 
antee and protect a revived State Government, con- 
structed in whole or in preponderating part from the 
VERY element against whose hostility and violence it 
is to be protected, is simply absurd.'" Can Andrew 
Johnson, with these words before him, look at 
the work that his policy has wrought and be- 
lieve that it is the lamented Lincoln's policy 
carried out? Andrew Johnson knows that 
every political act of that great and just man 
bad a tendency to crush treason and exalt 
loyalty and liberty ; that he never dreamed of 
traitors governing the four millions of enfran- 
chised human beings. Andrew Johnson calls 
upon the people to tell him what principle he 
has violated, from what sentiment he h-as 
swerved?— asks them, if any one quotes his 
predecessor as going in opposition to anything 
he has done, what principle adopted by him 
has he departed from ? There may have been 
silence in that crowd when these questions 
were asked, but the loyal plople aver that 
he has violated his solemn engagement to be 
the " Moses " and lead lh'3 oppressed to " Lib- 
erty — full, broad and unconditional liberty ;"' 
that he has discriminated against the loyal and 
in favor of th ■ disloyal ; he has been guilty of 
acts and language calculated to precipitate 
another horrid rebellion ; that he has at- 
tempted to usurp the legislative powers of 
Congress ; that he has said he '-did not consider 
those who opposed his policy as belonging to 
the Union party ;'' that he has been guilty, iu 
the following, of shameless interference in the 
sacred rights of the ballot : " In reference to 
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for the candidate who is for the general policy 
and the specific measures promulgated in my 
annual message, veto message, speech of 22d 
February, and the veto message sent in to-day. 
There can be no mistake in this. I presume it 
is known, or can be ascertained, what candi- 
dates favor or oppose my policy or measures 
as promulgated to the country. 

" Andrew Johnson.'" 

These averments and the President's own 
letter answers the question the President puts. 
By them it is shown that he has not been true 
to his own professions, nor have his acts been in 
keeping with those of his predecessor. 

In connection with the subject of reconstruc- 
tion the name of Abraham Lincoln will be lov- 
ingly enshrined in the hearts of patriots for his 
immortal acts, while that of Andrew Johnson 
will be associated with their woes and their op- 
pressions ; he will be remembered as the prime 
mover in the infamous plans of staying the 
progress of the noble work commenced by his 
predecessor. 

WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING. 

A Republican Congress is now acting in har- 
mony with the great work commenced by 
Abraham Lincoln. That Congress seeks to 
" establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, 
provide for the common defence, and insure 
the blessings of liberty " to the Nation. The 
contest between the Chief Executive and that 
legislative body is not for the restoration of 
the Union — ^the Union is indivisible. Congress 
opposes the admission of rebels to legislate 
upon the vital questions now before this Nation. 
It opposes those who are enemies to the Gov- 
ernment. The President is laboring to force 
men who have been the leaders of rebellion 
into Congress to frame the laws of the country. 
The civil and political organization of the re- 
bellious States is constitutionally withiu the 
control of Congress. It is the duty, under the 
Constitution, for the Commander-in-Chief of 
the Army and Navy to suppress insurrection 
and rebellion, under the direction of Congress.^' 
Through Congress armies and navies are raised 
and sustained, and the duty of the President, 
as Commander-in-Chief, is to execute the laws 
of that body in carrying out the will of the 
people. Congress has the right to determine 
the conditions of peace or war, and it is the 
■jinraistakable and the sworn duty of the Presi- 
dent to heed and enforce its Bolomn behests. 



The Constitution declares that " it shall be the 
duty of the President," as Commander-in-Chief, 
" to execute the laws of the Union, suppress 
insurrections and repel invasions." But Con- 
gress shall •' provide for organizing, arming 
and disciplining the militia, and for governing 
such part of them as may be employed in the 
service of the United States," to provide for 
the common defence and general welfare of the 
United States, to declare war, grant letters of 
marque and make reprisal, and make rules for 
the capture on land and water, to raise and 
support armies to make rules for the govern- 
ment of land and naval forces, and to provide 
for calling out the militia. 

THE WAR IS NOT ENDED. 

War has not ended. The act of Congress of 
July 22d, 1861, and the act of four days later, 
reducing the army to twenty-five thousand men 
withiu one year after the existing rebellion and 
insurrection, cannot be carried out, because of 
the continuance of rebellion. The men who 
participated in the rebellion are still armed in- 
surgents. If not armed with the bayonet, they 
have inaugurated a warfare against freedom 
and the just laws of this Government, and hold 
themselves in readiness to strike at the lite of 
the Republic when they shall have obtained 
the power. 

ENEMIES AIDING IN KECONSTKOCTION. 

Under tne present policy of reconstruction 
the rebel States have not chosen their repre- 
sentatives according to law. The proclamation 
of May 29th, 1865, was utterly disregarded. 
Men excepted by it voted at the elections, and 
men thus excepted were elected to the most im- 
portant offices. Men were elected to aid in the 
important work of reconstruction who had 
sworn an oath against the United States Gov- 
ernment, who had fought against it, and had 
given no subsequent acknowledgement by re- 
turning to their allegiance, that they were not 
still its bitter enemies. Are such men fit to 
represent the vital interests of the States of 
this Republic within the National or State 
Governments ? Such are not the set of men Con- 
gress desires should vitalize and develope the Union 
feeling in the South. 

HUMILIATION OF THE SOUTH BY CONGRESS DENIED. 

It is a false assertion that a Republican Con- 
gress or any men maintaining loyal, Union 
principles, desire to humiliate the South. It 
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correlatives, aristocracy, despotism, anarcby 
and rebellioa— tbat Republican loyalty has de- 
termiued shall perish trom this Nation, and 
with the help of a just God, will crnsh out from 
this country, destined to be the land of human 
rights, and to be governed by the chosen friends 
of liberty. Justice, ever in harmony with free- 
dom, demands that national crimes be punished 
and equitable laws established, and that the 
dignity, rights and privileges of loyal citizens 
be respected. An outraged people demand that 
'• ae the Government has put down traitors in 
arms, traitors should be put down in law, in 
public judgment, and in the morals of the 
world." Loyal people believe in no policy 
that honors, exalts, makes governors, legisla- 
tors, senators and presidents of men who have 
sent our brothers and sous to Andursonville 
and Libby prisons, and made the land to 
flow with the blood of patriots ; men who to- 
day are singing praises to their heroes, the 
traitors Jefferson Davis, Lee, and Stonewall 
Jackson, and have erected monuments to 
rebels, while they curse the memory of our 
fallen heroes and martyred patriots. We be- 
lieve the mass of the people in the insurrection- 
ary States, freed from the vile influences of 
those men who led them into treason and re- 
bellion, would be easily brought back to alle- 
giance and become good citizens ; but the 
leading men, those described in the Proclama- 
tion of Amnesty, are "<the conscious, influential 
traitors." who wield their power in opposition 
to republican Institutions and draw the masses 
which they control into the vortex of treason, 
anarchy and political crimes. Is it strange 
that the loyalty of the Nation demands that 
the infamous crime of treason •' should sutfer its 
penalty," that '-it should be made odious," 
when we behold the war that it has caused, and 
the men who yet avow they will accomplish 
the destruction of free institutions? Are not 
these unrepentant traitors guilty before the 
law? Should they not be disfranchised, that 
they may no longer continue their infernal 
work of ruin and death? Should not men in 
sympathy with Jefferson Davis and his co- 
fiends, men who live to plot, conspire and to 
undermine a government based upon justice, 
liberty and republicanism, be excluded from 
our legislatures ? yea, be prohibited from the 
rights of loyal citizens until they have become 
tiuch. These traitors, who avow that had they 



it in their power they would inaugurate a 
war to day that would extirpate pure de- 
mocracy from the land, trample upon the 
riglits of humanity, and crush liberty with 
the iron heel of despotism. It has been 
fully demonstrated to thoughtful, candid, rea- 
soning loyal men who have investigated the 
true state of affairs in the rebellious States, 
that it would be unsafe to permit the with- 
drawal of the military forces from those States. 
That loyal people, white and black, are hope- 
less of maintaining their rights without mili- 
tary power ; that without it they would have 
no protection for life, liberty or property. 

JOSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE BASIS OF PKACK. 

In view of these facts, should not loyal men 
demand that the basis of pacification be justice 
and human rights? Should they not exact 
justice, and determine never to recognize any 
government as a republican government^ but 
one based upon the principles wfiich insure 
••Liberty — full, broad and unconditional Lib- 
erty ?" Then, and not till then, can ^ve expect 
" peace to come, and come to sti^y." 

LOTAL PROVISIONAL GOVERNORS SHOULD BE AP- 
POINTED. 

The President and Congress, in justice to the 
loyal element of the South, should continue 
military power over those in rebellion. The 
civil law should be subordinate to martial 
law. Provisional Governors of unquestion- 
able loyalty, who have not joined the enemies of 
free institutions in the infamous war against 
the Government, should be appointed to carry 
out the laws. Men who have not joined hands 
with the Vallandighams, Woods and Seymours, 
for the purpose of achieving what they call 
their rights — the right of slavery ; the right to 
recognize the debt of the " Confederate Slates ;" 
the right to establish aristocratic or oligarchi- 
cal forms of government in opposition to re- 
publican institutions transmitted to us by our 
forefathers. We want no Governors who, 
while they maintain principles destructive to 
liberty and loyalty, hypocritically profess 
opposite principles, to deceive a loyal Con- 
gress and a loyal people. Have such men 
demonstrated their acceptance of the situation 
'■as free States forever as the result of the 
war." The acts of the Legislatures of the so- 
called reconstructed States, which have acted 
in harmony with the Provisional Governors of 
these States, will answer theae questions. Will 



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n:>t these. acts be branded as equally infamous 
with the Black Codes aad the laws connected 
with that infernal slavery which so long disr 
graced the American Nation. 

THE RHPUBLICAN AND DEMOCKATIC PARTIES OOM- 
PAKED. 

The Republican party for the last fouV years 
has been fightinji; for the ''general liberty and 
security of the people.'' That party, in Con- 
gress and out of Congress, are still battling for 
what alone will secure the general liberty and 
security of the Nation — ^Justice and equal rights 
before the law. On the other hand, there is 
a powerful faction who are opposed to the 
principles of the Republican party, have been 
fighting against emancipation, the draft, con- 
fiscation, the enrollment and arming of the 
blacks, the proclamation of martial law, and 
the arrest and punishment of traitors. The 
men who opposed the war because they be- 
lieved it would result in the destruction of 
their cherished plans against true demo- 
cratic principles, are ttose who cheer loudest 
for the reconstruction policy of Andrew John- 
son and applaud his shameless _ betrayal of 
the Republican, party, and are loud in praise of 
his denouncement of those who in the National 
Congress firmly mainiain republican principles 
and resist all attempts to force into their coun- 
cils traitors who have been connected with the 
rebellion. What class of men support Andrew 
Johnson's policy in his vetoes of the Freedmen's 
Bureau and Civil Rights Bills, and demand the 
full representation of the rebellious States in 
Congress, wheu he denounces as traitors that 
body whose every act has beau to carry out the 
policy of Abraham Lincoln to " secure the 
rights and liberties of the people?" Where do 
we find ihe voice of the disciples of Calhoun 
and the Vallandighams ? Why did the rebels 
and copperheads, North and South, shout long 
and loud for the Chief Executive of the Repub- 
lic when he stepped from his exalted position to 
mingle with a copperhead mob to condemn the 
leaders of the Republican party for their integ- 
rity and loyalty? Are not these admirers of 
the i'resident's last acts those who said, a little 
while since, that "successful coercion would 
be as great a crime as successful secession:" 
that " if an attempt was made to put secession 
down blood would flow in the streets of New 
York ;" that '• coercion was unconstitutional, 
illegal?" Are not these the men who opposed 



the measures for the suppression of the rebel- 
lion, opposed the suspension of the haheug 
corpus, opposed emancipation, conscription, 
loans, legal tender, money and taxation T 
Franklin Pierce, who said the fighting would 
not be alone South of Mason aud Dixon's line ; 
it would ba within our own borders, that we 
would find occupation enough at home, has 
suddenly come to worship the policy of Andrew 
Johnson. James Buchanan, who invited re- 
bellion, finds consolation in his late acts, as 
do all copperheads and traitors. North and 
South, who wanted " the war to end by diplo- 
macy, by recognition ;" who advised the people 
to shoot down those who would enforce the draft 
or deny the right of habeax corpus, to resist to the 
bitter end the attempt to make the military 
superior to the civil law, and to arm them- 
selves that they might be prepared for horrible 
contingencies, who urged the repudiation of 
the National debt, and did all in their power 
to depreciate th'; currency and make worthless 
the public credit ; who said Abraham Lincoln 
was controlled by fanatics and Black Republi- 
cans. Such are the men who opposed the policy 
of Abraham Lincoln, but who to-day embrace 
the doctrines of the betrayer of the Republican 
party. 

Andrew Johnson is now the upholder of that 
party who said of the Martyr of Liberty, " that 
the fate of Charles I should be his doom," that 
he ought to be put down by the bullet, and 
found their Booth to carry out their hell-born 
desire. These admiring friends of Andrew 
Johnson ihreatened to hang the military com- 
mission that condemned to death the assassins 
of Abraham Lincoln. These same friends pro- 
posed to divide this Union into tour quarters, 
Northern, Western, Pacific and Southern ; but 
nov/ do not object to Union, provided that the 
country can be ruled by the policy of Andrew 
Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Gen. 
Humphries, and other " loyal " Southerners — 
provided our Congress can be made up of the 
leaders of the great secession movement. Are 
not these men " Southern patriots," " honora- 
ble men," "Christian warriors," " chivalrous 
gentismen," 'the men who have a right, ac- 
quired by their devotion to " Southern institu- 
tions," and their adherence to the " white man's 
government.'' to bid defiance to a Republican 
Congress and a loyal people. Have not these 
men acquired a right to denounce that parly 



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which has determiued, with the help ot Eternal 
Jastice, to establish equal rights and equitable 
laws iu this Republic; has determined that none 
shall be welcomed back into the Union who 
wielded a power during a civil war against 
that Government they now propose to control ; 
meu who now harmonize with men like Buch- 
anan, who said it would be right to acknowl- 
edge the independence of the Southern States ; 
of men who, like George H. Pendleton, who said 
the whole scheme of coercion was impractica- 
ble and was contrary to the spirit of the Con- 
stitution, and commended the people to let the 
seceded States depart iu peace, establish their 
Government and work out their destiny ac- 
cording to the wisdom God had given them. 

COPPEKHEAD SENTIMENTS. 

Such are some of the sentiments of that party 
who sought through Lord Lyons the mediation 
of Foreign Powers between the North and (he 
South, who urged the people to reiuse supplies 
to our brave defenders ; who defended '• State 
Rights," •' State Independence,'' " State Sover- 
eignty,'- called Abraham Lincoln a traitor, 
Jefferson Davis a patriot, a second Washington 
battling for democratic rights, claimed jtmoug 
their leaders men like S. S. Cox, who said that 
Lincoln should be brought to the same block 
with Jefferson Davis; 'Mr. Xngersoll, of Penn- 
sylvania, who said, '• I fully endorse the doc- 
trine of secession as au American doctrine;'' 
Harris, of Maryland', who said, "I hope the South 
in this struggle will never be conquered ;" Rev. 
C. Chauncwy Burr, who said, "Yon can never 
conquer the South, and I pray God you never 
may.^' Such are the Democratic leaders who 
join hands with the Southern reconstructed 
rebels and shout praises to Andrew Johnson. 
Are they not " pure patriots," '• loyal citizens," 
'• immortal heroes," •• brave, devoted followers 
of their leaders," Jefferson Davis, Andrew 
John.son, and Robert E. Lee ? Have they 
not fought through a sea ot blood to establish 
a Southern Confederacy, whose corner stone 
was to be slavery ? Have they not become 
worthy, by their noble deeds, (o control the 
Government of the United States, which they 
fought for four years to destroy ? Have they not 
the right as brother •' Democrats," to choose 
for their leader iu their patriotic enterprise. 
Andrew Johnson, whom they opposed for his 
republican talk from 18()0 uutil he became, 
through an inscrutable mvsierv. President of 



the United States? These are the men who, in 
the days of Andrew Johnson's avowed repub- 
lican patriotism, " bullied " him, while Con- 
gress has maintained the principles of right 
and duty in reminding him of the laws and his 
solemn promises to the loyal millions, " TO 
MAKE TREASON ODIOUS," aud to practice 
the true doctrines of Democracy, which " is a 
sentiment not to be appalled, corrupted or 
compromised. It knows no baseness, it cowera 
to no dangers, it oppresses no weakness. De- 
structive only of despotism, it is the sole con- 
servator of liberty, of labor and property. It 
is the sentiment of freedom, of equal rights, of 
equal obligations— the law of nature pervading 
the law of the land." 

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY MCST BE 
ACTIVE. 

My friends — we, who are in sympathy with 
che National Republican party, are called upon 
to meet the issues that are presented in this 
contest between human liberty aud despot c 
oppression. The great questions before the 
nation are of vital importance to us all, in- 
volving as they do the moral and political rain 
of the country, or the triumph of the principles 
upon which human rights are based. In the 
proj;resB of events we can but mark a series of 
antagonisms which must impress all thoughtful 
men who are interested in the welfare of our 
country with the fact that iu this terrible con- 
flict, free government aud the rights of hu- 
manity must be established and respected in 
this Republic and the Union maintained in its 
integrity, or the false and dangerous doctrines 
which the em'mies of our National Government 
have vindicated before, during and since the 
rebellion, will triumph and overthrow the 
democratic, republican i::stitutions now the 
glory of the American Nation. In this case, 
will not the loyal element. North and Sjotli, 
scs'Liin a truly Republican Congrest--, which, as 
a body, is devoted to liberty and loyalty, 
which is struggling to vindicaio the immutable 
principles of the Declaration of Independence 
and ilio Constitution, and " to conHnue the (!ov- 
ertimcnt in loyal liands, and nmie other;" which 
has determined that, none " but men loyal to 
the Constitution, loyal to Ireedom, loyal to 
justice." shall participate in the Natiional 
Councils, to frame laws for the country or con- 
trol the work of reorganization 9 This body of 
earnest patriots isgoverned by the fundamental 



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principles that " the exercise of political power 
should be confined to the loyal." One of the 
noble men of that body, Senator Wilson, forci- 
bly sayg : " A loyal people, with the clear in- 
stincts of intelligent patriotism, saw amid all 
the excitements of the present that this was 
not a struggle for the restoration of the rebel 
States into the Union, but a struggle for the 
admission of rebels into the Union ; a struggle 
for the admission of rebels into the legislative 
branches of the Government of the United 
States ; not a struggle to put rebels under the 
laws, but to enable rebels to frame the laws of 
the country. Politicians might deceive them- 
selves, but the people, who had given two ani^ 
a half millions of men, the blood of 600,000 
heroes, and $3,000,000,000 comprehend the 
issues. These were indeed eventful, exciting 
and sad times. Rebels, rebel sympathizers, 
the men who had stained their hands with the 
blood of our brothers, starved the country's 
defenders at Andersonville, plotted in secret 
lodges of the Knights of the Golden Circle and 
$b6 Sons of Liberty for the overthrow of their 
icountry. lighted the fires of riot and arson in 
the city of New York, and plotted the assas- 
f5ination of Abraham Lincoln, are shouting 
with exultation over the present aspect of 
National alfrtirs. The Republican or great 
Union party of the country, embracing in its 
ranks more of moral and intellectual worth 
than was ever organized in any political party 
on the globe, proclnims as its living faith tlie 
creed of the equal rights of man. and the brotli- 
erhood of all humanity embodied in the New 
Testament and in the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. If it should perish now by the hand of 
the suicide, or by the follies and treacheries of 
men it had generously trusted, it will have 
made a record of honor and glory. The best 
interests of the regenerated Nation, the rights 
of man. the elevation of an emancipated race 
alike demand that the leaders of that great 
Union party that restored a broken Union and 
gave liberty to four millions of men. shall con- 
tinue to administer the Government and pre- 
serve and frame the laws for the nation." 

ItEl'lULICANS WILL SCSTATN CONGRESS. 

The great Liberty party will sustain this 
Congre.'^s in its cfrorls to establish in the rebel- 
lious States republican governments, based 
upon the fandnmental principles laid down in 
the Doclaralioii of Iiidependonee. Until these 



governments are established the rights of loyal 
citizens will not be protected— Liberty, peace 
and permanent Union cannot be secured to the 
Nation— the natural, civil and political rights 
of man will not be achieved. The two great 
elements of republican government are justice 
and equality. These two elements are wanting 
in the present governments of the rebellioua 
States, They only contain those elements 
which, in the wards of Abraham Lincoln, 
"make the States half slave — half Irae,"' and 
are, therefore, established upon a basis which 
cannot permanently endure. They do not 
secure freedom to all, do not protect the rights 
of four millions of human beings, who claim 
and are entitled to the just rights of citizens. 
They do not, in the language of Andrew John- 
son, "secure exact justice to all men. special 
privilege to none," do not provide for the com- 
mon defence, promote the general welfare, 
establish justice and secure the blessings of 
liberty to ourselves and our posterity. These 
governments, I repeat, are wanting in the great 
principles upon which must be basfd republi- 
can government. These fundamental doctrines 
the Fathers sought to establish — Liberty to all 
and Equal Rights to all. No State constitu- 
tion can be republican in form wliich disfran- 
chises the loyal citizens of the United States. 
Millions of human beings, within the past four 
years, have been emancipated from the bondage 
of slavery, and are now citizens of the United 
States, loyal patriotic defenders of their coun- 
try and the firm friends of republican State 
governments, which will recognize their moral, 
civil and political rights. These governments 
will never be established through the influence 
of traitors, rebels, or any class of men whose 
lives have been spent in political opposition to 
republican institutions, and who continue to 
fight Hgainst destiny and the forces which are 
moving the nations of the world to extend 
equal rights to all men ; the men whom treason 
has made " odious," the men in command of the 
rebel governments, who " grant protection to 
the rich traitor, while the poor Union man 
stands out in the cold, often unable to get a 
receipt or a voucher for his losses." These 
men might legislate forever and they would 
never establish just laws for all, would never 
advocate measures by which the rights of all 
would be secured, would never recognize the 
great principles of republican government. 



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.whicb comprehend universal lib(>rty. univcrsfil 
justice and universal suffrage, without wliicb 
tliis nation will never attain to that grandeur 
and power which the voice of Liberty pro 
claims the destiny of a united Republic. During 
the administration of Abraham Lincoln an at- 
tempt was made to establish governments in 
Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, based 
npon republican principles. These were in 
harmony with thu policy of that Martyr of 
Liberty, and met the approbation of him who 
ever desired to promote liberty and popularize 

/ progressive principles. It is true an important 
political element was wanting in these forms of 
government, which President Lin3oln himself 

, more than once hinted at as necessary to enter 
into truly republican governments. They did 
not embrace the political rightsof all loyal citi- 
J^ens. Alas I Lincoln did not live to carry out 
that policy which promised universal suffrage: 
did not live to carry out his pledge that " the 
freedom of the enfranchised should be main- 
tained," and that he should h". not only "a sol- 
dier in war, but a citizen in peace." In the 
Constitution of Louisiana of 1864, provision,« 
were made for the Legislature of the State to 
extend the right of suffrage to the enfranchised, 
to educate them, to draw upon them for de- 
fence. Of this Constitution it was said by the 
immortal and lamented Lincoln, that he had 
read it through twice, and "thought it the 
best Constitution yed adopted by any Siate." 
Had not the enemies of progress and liberty 
controlled this State in opposition to the policy 
of the champion of liberty and loyalty. Louis- 
iana would have stood upon the broad platform 
of constitutional liberty, when she would have 
exclaimed through the people, " I have bent the 
tyrant's rod. I have broken the yoke of slavery; 
and to-day she stands redeemed.'" But' 
alas! vvbo. under the policy of Andrew John 
son. the author of these noble words, have been 
the participants in the work of reorganization ? 
Has it been those " loyal to freedom, loyal to 
justice," men true and faithful to the rights of 
humanity ? What has been the course of action 
of the Governor of Louisiana, of the State Gov- 
ernment, of the Government of New Orleans, 
the metropolis of the South? History, true to 
justice, will not fail to point out the true story 
and give its moral to the future. It will solve 
this problem of reconstruction and seal the 
doom of the enemies of human rights. An- 



tagonistic systems of govirnment cannot exist. 
There is no harmony between liberty and 
slavery. Their friends will never be in sym- 
pathy, can never work together in the vitally 
important work of reconstruction. Uncom- 
promising and eternal war has been declared 
between slavery and freedom. Peace will 
never come uutil this antagonism ceases, and 
pure, republican, democratic principles triumph 
over the arrogant slave powers. 

Andrew Johnson, in his speech to the Ameri- 
can people, says : Citizens, soldiers and sail- 
ors— know that from my advent into public 
life to the present moment, I have always 
stood unwaveringly the advocate and the 
defender of their rights and interests.'' Andrew 
Johnson is an egotist, a demagogue, a boaster, 
and is prone to much unpresldential talk and 
tergiversation, which sounds to the "citizens, 
soldiers and sailors '' very like ad capfandum. 
The "soldiers and sailors, especially.'' will not 
sutfer usurpations by Andrew Johnson or any 
other man. They have too much intelligence 
and virtue to be cajoled and cheated of their 
liberty by such heartless professions as have em- 
anated from Andrew Johnson. He asks, " who 
has sacrificed or periled more '' in the cause of 
country? He says his life, his properly and his 
all have been staked upon it. Well, admitting 
it be so, wag he not paying a debt he owed? 
Were they sacrifices ? Can one sacrifice 
in the cause of country ? Does not country 
demand support? Are we not bound to it for 
all we have, for all we are? Have not thou- 
sands of "private" and " public " citizens, 
•' soldiers and sailors," given more •' property," 
"periled more" of "everything sacred and 
dear to man '' than has Andrew Johnson ? Has 
not Andrew Johnson beeu munificently re- 
warded for his manifold labors ? Was he not 
elevated from a m'?ch;\nic to the offices of 
Senator, Military Governor, 'Vice President 
and President? Are not these offices of great 
honor and enormous emoluments? Could he 
have done as profitably as a private soldier, 
sailor or officer in the array or navy, or as a 
private citizen in his mechanic's shop? 

Your speaker, on the axiom " that principles 
demand support," has suffered more imprison- 
ment, giren more "property," more labor and 
more of " everything sacred and dear to man " 
than has Andrew Johnson, and without the 
compensation or honor as Senator, pay or 



14 



AN ADDRESS Br DR. A. P. DOSTIE. 



Iioaor as Military Govonioi". pay 6i' honor as 
Vice President, or pay or iioaor as President 
of the United States of America ; and yet, uu- 
lilie Andrew Johason, be does uot camp!ain 
Your speaker has only labored to perform his 
duty to his country and her liberties, and 
thereby found ample mward. Andrew 
Johasou asks, '• Whe'-e were they (mean- 
ing the people alarmed at Andrew John- 
son's treachery) during the rebellion just 
ended? Ever at home in bi'd." Words are in- 
adequate to express indignation against this 
monstrous calumny. Was the immortal Lin- 
coln '• ever at home in bed?'' was bis Cabinet — 
was the brave and heroic Congress "ever at 
home in bed ?" Were the Judiciary "ever at 
home in bed?" Were the merchants, the me- 
chanics, the farmers, the laborers of the coun- 
try "ever at home in bed ?" O incorrigible 
boaster, Andrew Johnson! where v/ere you? 
History is silent as to the battle you fought in. 
It makes no mention of your having " smelled 
gunpowder.'- Like Demosthenes, the death 
and carnage of '• grim visaged war " was more 
desirable afar off. Oh, impotent effort to se- 
duce soldiers, sailors and civilians to " wait 
ard see if I don't stand by you, although everr/ 
other man may falter and fall." Apropos to this 
ivaiLlng and seeing, re^id from the QonsiUidional 
Union — one of Andrew Johnson's special organ? 
— and divine what waiting and seeing means : 

" I caution no violence," nor do I vrish to 
see the second advent of Croaiwull.of England, 
or Napnicon. of France, practiced upon the 
Radical destructionists in this Congress, but 

*'- WUAT HA.S BEEX MiT BK, AND WILL IJE AG.a.X," 
TP PUKSIDKNT JoHNSON IS TilWAUrED fN III3 GOOD 

T.vTENTioNS. The President must be sustained" 

"Thim, my countrymen, frfllow-citizens, sol- 
diers and s-ailiir.s," let us. bejug (orewarned. 
lie Joreanne.'f, ai'd ready (o meet the horrible 
contingencies, and in the mightiness of right 
■And our blocd-.'-'tained liberties — 

" Strike for the green graves of our sirci 
(Jod and our native land." 

■rUE I'UESTDENr AN!) ' ' UtS COLOUKO FHIEXDiS." 

Jn hi'! cnipiy and inconclu.^ive talk to his^ 
•' colored friends " on the Kith April. Andrew 
Johnson said, "Mj/friendahip. as far an if. goe.a 
is not for place or power, for I have them al 
rendy." Tlie.^e /"(vV/jcr; r>re iMiliglitPOod to learn 



that Andrew Johnson's friendship, as far as it. 
goes, is not for place or power ; but ignorant 
as these people are, they know he holds his 
exalted position through much aid received 
from them, both in the field of battle and la 
other walks of life, and have awakened to the 
ingratitude of the man who is doing all in hia 
power to reduce them to a more deplorable 
slavery than the slavery from which the great 
and lamented Lincoln freed them : and their 
souls are Made to swell with indignation 
against Andrew Johnson, as the great betrayer 
of their liberties. 

THE POWER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 

Andrew Johnson says the people will •• give 
evidence to the nations of the earth and to its 
own citizen.-i that it has the power to restore 
internal peace." Yes, the American people 
will give this evidence, against all Andrew 
Johnson's diabolical machinations to inaugu- 
rate another horrid rebellion. The Nation has 
put down a stupendous rebellion, and has re- 
solved to the very death; to crush bell-lx)ru 
treachery to the most sacred of trusts. Let 
Andrew Johnson beware of treachery in him- 
self, lest he call down the Vi. eance of be- 
trayed millions. 

LOYALTY MUST PREVAIL. 

My countrymen — the loyal element, regard- 
less of race or color, must master and control 
tiie destinies of Louisiana, or the enemies of 
Liberty, the sworn enemies of the Great Re- 
public, will again raise the banner of treason 
and trail in the dust that glorious flag which 
has inscribed upon its folds, " Uiiiou, Confi- 
dence, Justice, Freedom, Enfranchisement — 
Ihe salvation and perpetuity of the iV(^/?o/i.''vL()vers 
of liberty and human rights — I call uppn you 
in the name of our venerated fathers, in the 
name of the love you bear for the rising gen- 
eration, to meet with brave hearts and iron 
resolves tbci vital issue's now bi'f(n'e you. In 
our struggle to achieve and maintain republi- 
can instit'ntions, we are sustained by the glo- 
rious Congress who are laboring '"to m^ke 
TKEASOM oniors." and enact governments thnt 
will '■ iimiire fnntwn to I he free ^ .When this 
glorious di'sid 'rutntn is Hijliicved, this GfiEAT 
Nation will justly cltiirti that Unilyand hilterty 
destined (or a huid of FRKIODOM. 



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